Treatise on Happiness

Aquinas Thomas, John A. Oesterle

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The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of the Summa Theologiae. From his careful consideration of what true happiness is, to his comprehensive discussion of how it can be attained, St. Thomas Aquinas offers a challenging and classic statement of the goals of human life, both ultimate and proximate. This translation presents in accurate, consistent, contemporary English the great Christian thinker's enduring contributions on the subject of man's happiness.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Éthique et morale
• Philosophie de la religion
• Religious
• PHILOSOPHY
• Philosophie et théologie
• God
• Catholicism
• Ethics

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 1984
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268158026
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Treatise on Happiness
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
Treatise on Happiness
Translated by
JOHN A. OESTERLE
University of Notre Dame Press
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu
Copyright 1964 by Prentice Hall, Inc.
All Rights Reserved Published in the United States of America
University of Notre Dame Press edition 1983
Reprinted in 1986, 1988, 1990, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2011
To Carl and Margaret
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Treatise on happiness.
Selected translations from: Summa theologica.
Reprint. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1964.
1. Happiness-Moral and ethical aspects-Early works to 1800. 2. Christian ethics-Early works to 1800.
I. Oesterle, John A. II. Title.
[BJ1480.T4813 1983] 171 .2 83-17091
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Table of Contents
Introduction
QUESTION I
The Ultimate End of Man in General
First Article:
Does Man Act for an End?
Second Article:
Does Acting for an End belong Exclusively to Those Beings in Nature that Have Reason?
Third Article:
Are Human Acts Specified by Their End?
Fourth Article:
There an Ultimate End for Human Life?
Fifth Article:
Can a Man Have Several Ultimate Ends?
Sixth Article:
Does Man Will All that He Wills for an Ultimate End?
Seventh Article:
Is There One Ultimate End for All Men?
Eighth Article:
Do Other Creatures Share in this Ultimate End?
QUESTION II
In What Man s Happiness Consists
First Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Wealth?
Second Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Honors?
Third Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Fame or Glory?
Fourth Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Power?
Fifth Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Some Good of the Body?
Sixth Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Pleasure?
Seventh Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Some Good of the Soul?
Eighth Article:
Does Man s Happiness Consist in Any Created Good?
QUESTION III
What Is Happiness
First Article:
Is Happiness Something Uncreated?
Second Article:
Is Happiness an Activity?
Third Article:
Is Happiness an Activity of the Senses or Only of the Intellect?
Fourth Article:
Given that Happiness is an Activity of the Intellectual Part, Is It an Act of the Intellect or of the Will?
Fifth Article:
Is Happiness an Activity of the Speculative or Practical Intellect?
Sixth Article:
Does Happiness Consist in Scientific Knowledge?
Seventh Article:
Does Happiness Consist in Knowledge about the Separated Substances, namely the Angels?
Eighth Article:
Does the Happiness of Man Consist in the Vision of the Divine Essence?
QUESTION IV
What Is Required for Happiness
First Article:
Is Delight Required for Happiness?
Second Article:
Is Vision or Is Delight Primary in Happiness?
Third Article:
Is Comprehension Required for Happiness?
Fourth Article:
Is Rectitude of the Will Required for Happiness?
Fifth Article:
Is the Body Necessary for Man s Happiness?
Sixth Article:
Is a Perfection of the Body Required for Happiness?
Seventh Article:
Are Any External Goods Required for Happiness?
Eighth Article:
Are Friends Necessary for Happiness?
QUESTION V
The Attainment of Happiness
First Article:
Can Man Attain Happiness?
Second Article:
Can One Man Be Happier Than Another?
Third Article:
Can One Be Happy in This Life?
Fourth Article:
Can Happiness Once Had Be Lost?
Fifth Article:
Can Man Attain Happiness by His Natural Powers?
Sixth Article:
Can Man Attain Happiness through the Action of Some Higher Creature?
Seventh Article:
Does Man Have to Do Good Deeds in Order to Receive Happiness from God?
Eighth Article:
Does Every Man Desire Happiness?
QUESTION VI
The Voluntary and the Involuntary
First Article:
Is There Anything Voluntary about Human Acts?
Second Article:
Are Irrational Animals Voluntary in Any Way?
Third Article:
Can There Be Voluntariness without Any Act?
Fourth Article:
Can Violence Be Done to the Will?
Fifth Article:
Does Violence Cause Involuntariness?
Sixth Article:
Does Fear Cause Complete Involuntariness?
Seventh Article:
Does Concupiscence Cause Involuntariness?
Eighth Article:
Does Ignorance Cause Involuntariness?
QUESTION VII
The Circumstances of Human Acts
First Article:
Is a Circumstance an Accident of a Human Act?
Second Article:
Should the Theologian Consider Circumstances of Human Acts?
Third Article:
Are Circumstances Appropriately Enumerated in the Ethics?
Fourth Article:
Are the Circumstance Why and the Circumstance What is done the most Important?
QUESTION VIII
What the Will Wills
First Article:
Does the Will Will Only the Good?
Second Article:
Do We Will the End Only or Also the Means?
Third Article:
Is the Will Moved by the Same Act to the End and to the Means?
QUESTION IX
What Moves the Will
First Article:
Is the Will Moved by the Intellect?
Second Article:
Is the Will Moved by the Sense Appetite?
Third Article:
Does the Will Move Itself?
Fourth Article:
Is the Will Moved by an Exterior Principle?
Fifth Article:
Is the Will Moved by a Heavenly Body?
Sixth Article:
Is the Will Moved by God Alone as an Exterior Principle?
QUESTION X
The Manner in Which the Will Is Moved
First Article:
Is the Will Moved to Anything Naturally?
Second Article:
Is the Will Necessarily Moved by Its Object?
Third Article:
Is the Will Moved with Necessity by the Lower Appetite?
Fourth Article:
Is the Will Moved with Necessity by an External Mover, Which is God?
QUESTION XI
Enjoyment, an Act of the Will
First Article:
Is Enjoyment an Act of the Appetitive Power?
Second Article:
Does Enjoyment Belong Only to the Rational Creature or Also to Irrational Animals?
Third Article:
Is Enjoyment Only of the Ultimate End?
Fourth Article:
Is Enjoyment Only of the End Possessed?
QUESTION XII
Intention
First Article:
Is Intention an Act of the Intellect or of the Will?
Second Article:
Is Intention Only of the Ultimate End?
Third Article:
Can One Intend Two Things at the Same Time?
Fourth Article:
Is Intention of the End the Same Act as Willing the Means to the End?
Fifth Article:
Is There Intention in Irrational Animals?
QUESTION XIII
Choice, An Act of the Will in Relation to the Means
First Article:
Is Choice an Act of the Will or of Reason?
Second Article:
Is Choice Found in Irrational Animals?
Third Article:
Is Choice Only about the Means or Sometimes Also about the End?
Fourth Article:
Is Choice Only about What We Do?
Fifth Article:
Is Choice Only about What is Possible?
Sixth Article:
Does Man Choose with Necessity or Freely?
QUESTION XIV
Deliberation, Which Precedes Choice
First Article:
Is Deliberation an Inquiry?
Second Article:
Does Deliberation Concern the End or Only the Means?
Third Article:
Is Deliberation Only about What We Do?
Fourth Article:
Do We Deliberate about Everything We Do?
Fifth Article:
Does Deliberation Proceed by Way of Resolution?
Sixth Article:
Does Deliberation Proceed to Infinity?
QUESTION XV
Consent, an Act of the Will in Relation to the Means
First Article:
Is Consent an Act of an Appetitive Power or a Knowing Power?
Second Article:
Does Consent Belong to Irrational Animals?
Third Article:
Is Consent about the End or the Means?
Fourth Article:
Does Consent to the Act Belong Only to the Superior Part of the Soul?
QUESTION XVI
Use, an Act of the Will in Relation to the Means
First Article:
Is Use an Act of the Will?
Second Article:
Is Use Found in Irrational Animals?
Third Article:
Can There Be Use Even of the Ultimate End?
Fourth Article:
Does Use Precede Choice?
QUESTION XVII
Acts Commanded by the Will
First Article:
Is Command an Act of Reason or of the Will?
Second Article:
Does Command Belong to Irrational Animals?
Third Article:
Does Use Precede Command?
Fourth Article:
Are Command and the Commanded Act One Act or Distinct Acts?
Fifth Article:
Is the Act of the Will Commanded?
Sixth Article:
Is the Act of Reason Commanded?
Seventh Article:
Is the Act of the Sense Appetite Commanded?
Eighth Article:
Is an Act of the Vegetative Soul Commanded?
Ninth Article:
Are Acts of the External Members Commanded?
QUESTION XVIII
The Goodness and Malice of Human Acts in General
First Article:
Are All Human Acts Good or Are Some Evil?
Second Article:
Is the Good or Evil of Human Action Derived from the Object?
Third Article:
Is a Human Act Good or Bad Because of Circumstances?
Fourth Article:
Is a Human Act Good or Evil Because of the End?
Fifth Article:
Is a Human Act Good or Evil in Its Species?
Sixth Article:
Does an Act Have Its Species of Good or Evil from Its End?
Seventh Article:
Is the Species Derived from the End Contained under the Species Derived from the Object as under Its Genus, or the Reverse?
Eighth Article:
Is Any Act Indifferent according to Its Species
Ninth Article:
Can an Individual Act Be Indifferent?
Tenth Article:
Does a Circumstance Make a Moral Act Good or Evil in Species?
Eleventh Article:
Does Every Circumstance Increasing the Good or Evil of a Moral Act Constitute a Species of Good or Evil?
QUESTION XIX
The Goodness and Malice of the Interior Act of the Will
First Articl